Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer numbers alone, the trend is extraordinary. At the University of Colorado, attendance at continuing-education-department courses has jumped from about 29,000 in 1971 to 41,000 in 1975. California's community college network, which is tuition-free for in-state residents, catered to a staggering 1,265,000 adults last year-one out of every eight adults in the state-a 50% increase over just five years ago. Nationwide last year, 5.5 million adults over age 25-about 50% of total college enrollment-took courses for credit...
There will be an open memorial service on Tuesday for Richard H. Gottesman '77, a former Winthrop House resident who did in an accident in Colorado this past summer...
...their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question as to whether the cutbacks were announced in time: in Colorado, for example, 60% of winter-wheat planting had taken place before the program was unveiled...
...slow procession down Elvis Presley Boulevard to the cemetery. There the lawn was banked with some 2,200 floral tributes - an imperial crown of golden mums, hortisculptured hound-dogs and guitars, sunflowers in wine bottles. Memphis ran out of flowers; reinforcements were sent in from California and Colorado...
...economics of gas sales has spurred competition for the big companies from regional chains that go by such names as Raceway (Alabama), Maverick (Colorado) and Fas Gas (Texas). What gasoline men describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las Vegas called Terrible Herbst that features 48 pumps, all run by a staff of two. The stations of the future, some oilmen say, may be somewhat like those run by an outfit in Brussels called Nafta, where a motorist punches his credit card number into a computer, then fills up his tank...